Tomás Straka
Tomás Helmut Straka Medina, is a Venezuelan author and professor of history at the Andrés Bello Catholic University,Career
Straka is the author of La Voz de los Vencidos, Hechos y gente, Historia contemporánea de Venezuela, Un Reino para este mundo, La épica del desencanto, La república fragmentada. Claves para entender a Venezuela, among other works and essays.
Outside of his work at Andrés Bello Catholic University in Venezuela, Straka has been a visiting scholar at the University of Chicago, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and Pomona College. Since 2016, he has been a member of the National Academy of History.Straka is the son of Austrian anthropologist Hellmuth Straka and brother of human rights activist Ursula Straka.
He holds a PhD in History from Andrés Bello Catholic University. Additionally, he holds degrees from Instituto Pedagógico de Caracas and Universidad Central de Venezuela.
